Apple v.s. Dell Laptop Wifi
My brother has a Dell Inspiron, my sister has an Apple Macbook. The inspiron has a Dell Wireless 1390 or Intel Wireless 3945 card, while the Macbook has AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n. The other night we were all playing an online game, with mixed results. They share a DSL connection to the internet, while I measured their latency over time from my Verizon FIOS:
Looking at the box-plots for my brother, who has the Dell, he is spending about 50% of his time experiencing latencies up to twice as bad as they should be, while my sister is getting decent, consistent Wireless performance. I don’t know if it’s environmental to their home, or something else, but what’s causing such bad performance for my brother? Does Dell just suck that much?
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I’ve experienced the same thing. My MacBook connects and works flawlessly with 4 out of 5 bars where my friend’s Dell can’t detect the network.
Even Lenovo’s connect well. I’ve also noticed that the iPad has a better reception than HTC smartphones.
What OS? I know friends who have issues getting Vista to connect wirelessly in certain places randomly, and I’ll pull out my mac and it works just fine. I haven’t yet figured out the problem (mostly because I usually just give them my mac to use for the time being), but maybe that’s a factor?
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